Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective – Not Another One! A Discussion on Gun Violence

March 13, 2017

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective is a nonprofit organization where artists and urban youth collect stories, reframe and retell them through art to promote understanding, civic pride, and literacy. Story Stitchers work with local youth often focuses on gun violence and implicit bias.

Recent projects in which youth address issues of violence include a new book publication entitled Not Another One! A Discussion on Gun Violence. The book includes a youth-led discussion that opens communication and identifies commonality, greater understanding, and ways to cooperate and collaborate between city police and teenage youth as both work to lower the high rates of gun violence in St. Louis, Missouri. The discussion details citizen rights, police policies and procedures, trauma caused by gun violence, and possible solutions in a frank, honest, and respectful discussion.

Adults invited by the teens included:

Lt. Col. Ronnie Robinson, Deputy Chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police and Commander of the Bureau of Community Affairs